------------------
I don't rember how long I sat there, from wanting to kill him myself for sabotaging Pixie to seeing both of them lose from my life because of the sa being.
The world around had gone completely silent.
The courtyard, once filled with screams and crashing magic, was nothing but broken stone and drifting dust. The air slled of blood and burnt earth.
As for my hands…they wouldn't stop shaking.
Grandpa's hand was still in mine, cold now. His blood painted my palm, dark and sticky, drying under the crimson light of dusk.
The old man wasn't moving.
He wasn't breathing.
He wasn't anything anymore.
I stared at him, waiting for him to make one of his dumb jokes.
Waiting for him to groan and say, "Didn't I tell you not to get emotional, brat?"
Waiting for anything.
But he just lay there, still, quiet...and gone.
The Kalki was already far away, flying slowly as his body drifted with Pixie's in the sky.
Every mile it took away from us echoed in my chest like a heartbeat that wasn't mine.
My throat burned, but no words ca out.
I wanted to scream.
I wanted to run towards them.
But my body refused to move.
"Grandpa…" I whispered, my voice breaking. "You can't-You said we'd make our little ho complete all over again.
You promised…"
The wind howled through the cracks in the ruined courtyard, carrying the sll of blood and death. My heart beat louder and louder until it drowned everything else out.
And then sothing inside …cracked.
It started as a faint pulse deep in my chest.
A small vibration, like a drumbeat beneath my ribs.
The ground around trembled.
The air grew heavy, charged, like the sky before a storm.
The Kalki paused mid-flight and turned slightly, its red eyes narrowing.
"So," it murmured, its deep voice carrying across the estate.
"The heir awakens after his Grandfather's death? How cliche."
I didn't know what it ant but I didn't care.
All I could see was the sight of Grandpa's lifeless body beside , his face calm, his eyes half-open, as if still watching over even in death.
Sothing broke loose inside .
All the grief, guilt, fear, pain, everything I'd held back...it exploded.
"GIVE HER BACK!" I roared.
The sound that ca out of wasn't human. It was raw, loud, and filled with a similar monstrosity that to the kalki.
The ground beneath started lting as I saw almost a faint pale hue of lavender coming out of my body.
I could feel sothing coursing through, sothing similar to the power that split personality had used.
The Kalki turned fully to face now. "I see," it said slowly, its voice almost admiring. "So that ans you're not gonna stop searching for her after this, are you?" It said, a wicked smile on it's face.
I stepped forward, my body scread in pain, my legs barely holding up, but I kept walking towards its figure in the air.
The monster tilted its head downwards. "You would challenge ? You who couldn't even crawl a mont ago?"
"Shut up," I said, my voice low and trembling. "You don't get to talk."
"I'll kill you," I whispered, my voice shaking not with fear, but with sothing else. "I don't care what you are, what you were, or what you lost. You took everything from AND NOW I WILL TAKE EVERYTHING AWAY FROM YOU!!"
The Kalki's expression shifted, from pity to cold amusent. "Then co, boy. Show what your grief is worth."
The Kalki towered above , eyes blazing. "You burn bright, boy. But flas that bright never last long."
I barely lifted my hand, my body still struggling to move.
And then…I felt it.
A warmth on my shoulder, gentle and familiar.
I turned my head slightly, and for a heartbeat, I saw him.
Grandpa.
Standing behind .
Not as flesh, but as shadow and light, his face calm.
"Not yet," I heard his voice whisper. "Not like this."
The obsidian blade ca swinging down from the sky, but before it hit , a burst of dark light erupted around , sending the Kalki staggering backward. The courtyard shook, the sky above flashing between night and day.
I scread, not from pain, but from everything as I realised that the people of our estate had long fled this estate to save themselves.
Everything I had lost.
Everything I couldn't protect had now abandoned themselves.
The Kalki hovered back, the sword flying back into it's hand.
Its gaze softened.
"Enough," it said quietly. "I will not kill you, boy. I'll let you suffer in guilt instead."
It turned away, flying into the oblivion.
"Sleep," it said, its deep voice echoing. "And when next you wake…you'll understand why she must return."
And just like that—
It was gone, leaving nothing but silence.
I fell to my knees beside the body of the only man who'd ever truly believed in .
I didn't cry this ti.
No tears ca.
Just emptiness.
My heartbeat slowed and my breathing steadied.
But sowhere deep inside...sothing else had awakened.
Not hope.
Not strength.
Sothing darker.
Sothing colder.
Sothing that whispered softly into the hollow of my chest:
"You will bring her back."
"You will make them pay."
And as the night finally swallowed the sky, I realized...
I was no longer the sa Noah who'd once smiled under the sunlight.
That Noah had died beside Venus D. Roro.
What remained…was soone the world should fear.
***
A/N: Please support with power stones, golden tickets and specially gifts.
The more coins you spend on this book the faster I will upload!!!
That would help in motivating myself into writing more enthusiastically for y'all!!
SPECIAL OFFER ONLY FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS!
500 coins worth gift = 2 bonus Chapter
1500 coins worth gift = 4 bonus Chapters
3000 coins worth gift = 7 bonus Chapters
Magic Castle or more coins worth gift = 11 Bonus Chapters!!
Reviews
All reviews (0)